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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
CROP REPORT.


AVesy Heavy Reduction IN the Yield -
Corn Expected.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE prospect :.
month ago was for Q very heavy
crop Of corn and rate Of yield about the
average. Its condition in all the States or
the Atlantic coast is now unimpaired and of
. very high promise. In Texas and Ten
nessee the condition has declined materi-
ally. In the central corn region, however.
in the valleys Of the Ohio and the Missouri.
where two-thirds Of the crop is grown and
the commercial supply is procured, q very
heavy reduction has taken place, which has.
made tho national average SUI, instead OF;
Ut last month. The cause 10 tho long cor.-
tinued drought, which has been the severess
In Kansas, Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and
Michigan. Nebraska has been scorched on
the southern border and Iowa and Missouri.
have escaped with comparatively light loss,
- have the moro northern States. The
seven corn surplus States stand ~ fol-
lows: Ohio. Sc; Indiana, g.; Illinois.
%; Iowa, %; Missouri, 30; Kansas, 3d..
Nebraska, Is.
Inc condition Of spring wheat, reported
very low last month from the rsvages OF
cnlnch bugs. Is not improved in the August
returns, but has fallen OF very slightly, the.
general average being 7S.S, but two points.
less than tho August return Of last year.
Dakota has made slight gain and stands
highest in condition. The average for Wis
consin is q; Minnesota, "a; Iowa, y; Ne
braska, a; Dakota, s. In the extreme
West and on the Pacific coast the condition,
Of spring wheat is high.
In the oats crop there Is no change. Part.
Of the crop was harvested Ut the last re-
port. The condition averages $50, which.
indicates crop slightly under the average.
The barley crop promises to yield rather
better than was feared last month. The
Eastern product averaged q higher condi-
ton, but is reduced slightly SINCE the last .
report. The average is $50, indicating
nearly an average yield. The buckwheat
area appears to DO practically the same az
last year, and averages about " in condi.
ton.
There is great reduction since the first on
July in the condition of potatoes, almost en-.
tirely the result of drought There il NO,
material decline on the Atlantic or Gulf
coast, but the injury is severe in the West.
The loss during the month is reported as.
fully two per cent. of the prospective crop.
The fruit crop is very poor. There will be.
few apples outside Of New England and
New York. There will be partial crop in,
Michigan. In the Ohio river States tho
harvest will be nearly failure. The hay
crop is also greatly reduced in tho West
The tobacco crop is in high condition in the
seed leaf States, averaging nearly 1OO, ex--
cept Wisconsin. The shipping and cutting
districts OF the West make an unprecedent--
ed report Of low condition; Tennessee, TO-:
Kentucky, 70; Ohio, IS; Indiana, s.; ILL.,
nois, Sc; Missouri, Co. In view Of the heavy
reduction in acreage only small fragment
Of the usual crop may be expected. The Of
fetal investigation Of the area now in pro-
gress will determine authoritatively the,
breadth cultivated the present year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
TRAIN ROBBERY.
The Southern Pacific Express Robbed In.
Arizona by Four Masked Men.

Tho Southern Pacific Express Robbed In.
Arizona by Four Masked Men.
San Francisco. Ang. 12.-The west-bounds
passenger and express train on the South
ern Pacific was run OF the switch about
fifteen miles east of Tucson, A. T., last
night by four masked men. Tho engine
was ditched and the express car robbed OF
about g, Co., The robbery occurred at the,
same point where the west-bound express.
was robbed in April last. On the track
oeyond where the train was brought to ..
standstili, the robbers had fastened three
:orpedoes to warn the engineer aud then.
compel him to stop his train. The plan.
to turn the switch and ditch the engine,
was evidently thought Of later. As soona
IS the train went in the ditch, one of the.
robbers, who was upon the bank, CON-
menced firing a Winchester rife. He shot.
twice through the sleeper and twice
through the express car. They then went
to the mail car and made the men come out
and 60 TO the express. They ordered tho
messenger to come out, but he would not
open the doors. They then blew open the.
door with giant cartridge and forced the,
mail agent to 60 to the car ahead. Two OF
the robbers then went in and one OF them
had Route Agent Gault and the
mail agent in one end Of the car, while the
other covered Smith, the messenger, with
q revolver, and made him open the safe and
put the money in a sack. They struck him.
over the head with q revolver once, but did
not iniure him much. There were four
men IN the gang. One was on the bank
one on the opposite side Of the train and
two went in the express car. They did not
allow anyone to come out Of the coaches
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
The Cotton Crop.

ABERDEEN, Miss, Aug. 1l-While con-
plant Of the cotton worm Is coming in from
the river bottom, this section Of the State u,
free from the pest There is some appre-
hension that the worm will make its appear
ance here, the weather being favorable for
terminating. Damp and murky weather il
favorable for the cotton worm, and IL ID just
such weather that has been prevalent for the
past ten days, which makes the farmers
apprehensive. Rust and shedding are re-
ported In some localities, but the general
crop is better than for the past ten year,
and unless some unforeseen accident occurs,
the cotton crop in this section viii be i'm
0ense.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19

THREs unknown tramps robbed Adolph
vieneman, . section hand, and bound him
to the railrord track near West Point, KY,
the other night. He was rescued by COM
panion just before train came along.
Ar Fort Smith. Ark, recently, J. n
Tuttle prominent citizen Of Vinita, L T.,
was convicted Of an attempt to corrupt .
jury.
TEE cannon ball train going west from
Paris. Tex, on the night Of the 18th, was
wrecked near Victor, by running over .
cow, turning the engine over and killing
Hugh Mclean, the fireman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
ser,ou, shooting AFFAIR.

OEAcocKA, Va, Aug. ia terrible
shooting ARRAY occurred last Monday night.
at Cape Charles, on the lower part Of the
eastern shore Of Virginia. A fleet Of fish
ing schooners arrived here on Monday
from the Rappahannock river. Some Of
the fishermen, after drinking freely, got
into disturbance with some of the citi-
Gems, which the town Dailih attempted
to quiet. He was knocked down several.
times by one Of the fishermen, and in re-
venge. opened fire on the strangers, Who
were unarmed- Several Of the citizens also
joined in firing and many Of the fishermen
were wounded. Others fed to their boats
and put out into the bay, carrying withs
them all NJ wounded except i've, who
were too severely injured to get AWAY
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
THE WRyEs

FIRE in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently
destroyed . hardware store, grocery and
. jewelry store, causing 100 losses.
SAN Woo, . Chinese lauadryman, of De-
troit, has brought suit for libel in the
United States Court against the Fre Press,
claiming $4,000 damages. He alleges that
she Free Press falsely stated that he fought
sparrows in his establishment
FARMERS in Northern Minnesota are COM
planning greatly Of lack CT harvest hands,
and are offering as high Is ESQ day for
good men.
NATURAL gas has been struck at Je6er-
a".c. iiie, Ind. The people held . celebra-
Sion thereupon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
: THE SOUTH.

The National Coiored Press Association
met in convention at Nashville, Tenn, ON
the 9Th.
HORACE ABBOTT, q noted iron manufac-
turer, the founder of the Abbott Iron Com
pany, died at Baltimore, Nd, on the Sth,
aged eighty-one.
D. c. BROWN, one Of the largest mer-
chants of Jacksboro, Tex, has assigned.
The liabilities were about 81, 100. Amount
of assets not known.
A DISPATCH from Little Rock, Ark, Of
the 9th says: Thomas Scott, implicated in
the assassination of two officers near Oak
Ridge, was captured in Louisiana. Just as
the party crossed the line they were set on
by a party Of armed men who took Scott
and hanged him to limb of tree.
REPORTS of the cotton and corn crops Of
South Carolina show that both will be
larger than for years.
The river at Augusta, Ga, reached its
height on the 10th and began falling and all
danger was over.
THE Colored Editorial convention closed
at Louisville, KY, on the 10th. An indie
pendent political stand was advocated by
most of the speakers. The resolutions
adopted denounced Georgia for making it
felony to teach colored children in white
schools; also the practice Of lynching col
ored men for similar outrages to which
white men usually 90 free.
THE Eagle -four mill, Memphis, Tenn,
was destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
$4,000.
JOHN CLAY, the only remaining son Of
Henry Clay, died at Lexington, KY, on the
10th, aged sixty-seven.
TIE residence of Henry Winston, Of the
Crescent coal works, Charleston, W. Va,
caught fire and was consumed the other
day. In the building were two children,
aged five and seven years respectively.
The younger jumped from the building and
was caught by its father, but the older was
burned to death
SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER was committed
to Jail and fined IS BY Judge Newman At
Woodstock, Va, recently for contempt Of
court A placard was paraded on the street
rejecting On the judge IN case in which
Riddleberger was interested. Partisan
feeling was running high and there were
fears Of trouble.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
THE LATEST.

A~&AA4~S0e
The Canadian steamers, the Hastings and
the Kathleen, have been seized by the Gus
tom house officers at Charlotte, near Roch-
ester, N. Y, on the ground that neither Of
the boats had been inspected by United
States inspectors.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
August ID showed an average decrease Of
9.5 compared with the corresponding week
OF last year. In New York the decrease
was LIS.
BUSINESS was inactive but prices were
fairly sustained On the London Stock Ex-
change during the week ended August 13
The Berlin Bourse was quiet and healthy,
Frankfort steady. Paris firm with an up
ward tendency.
superintendent Of the ordnance foundry,
missed and that John A. Burton, Of Laurel,
Nd, who has long been q mechanic in the
foundry. has been promoted to the vacancy.
THE deaths by the railroad disaster near
Chatsworth, ILL.,, amounted to about eighty.
fairly well on the 14th, with but two or three
exhibiting dangerous symptoms.
JOHN SULLIVAN and Patrick Kennedy
were drowned OF Thompson's island in the
harbor, Boston, recently by the upsetting
Of their boat
The Catholic Church at St. Paul, Iowa,
was totally destroyed by cyclone which
swept over that section the other morning.
Much other damage was done.
AARON SARGENT, ex-senator for Cali
fornia, died at San Francisco on the 18th,
from enlargement Of the spleen.
The death is announced at Constantinople
|of Behram Aghs, the Sultan's chief eunuch
and confidential adviser, who virtually
directed the State Affairs of Turkey.
Tue subsidiary high court of Foresters,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.


BIDS were opened at the Office Of the Sec
rotary Of the Navy In Washington for five
new war ships. William Cramp d Sons, Of
wilmington, Del, bid on all Of them.
TIE Commissioner Of Patents mas de-
certain fluting machine be extended seven
years from June l, 1889 This will be the
first case in ten years in which IN extern
sion Of patent has been granted, the last
case being in 1877 when the patent on wood
pulp was extended for seven years, making
its total life twenty. four years.
". J. CLARKE, Of Columbus, O., has been
appointed Assistant United States Attor-
ney for the District Of Utah.
TIE Marine Hospital Bureau has been In
formed that smallpox and yellow fever are
raging in Havana, Cuba. During the month
OF July 1O4 deaths occurred from yellow
fever and liz from smallpox.
An order has been issued from the War
Department relieving Major Daniel ]. Bash
from duty. Major Bash, it will be remem-
bered, is the army paymaster who was
robbed OF $3.50 belonging to the United
States while on his way to Fort Mckinney,
Wy. T., to pay OF the troops stationed there
last March. 1t is understood he il relieved
from duty until the amount il made good to
the Government
A MEETING of the Cabinet was held ct the
White House on the 18th. The financial
situation and the Canadian fisheries were
the principal subjects Of discussion.
TIE Civil Service Commission has rem.
dered decision generating Philadelphia
officials from the charges Of fraud in civil
service examinations.
A STATEMENT prepared ct the Treasury
Department, Washington, on the 18th,
shows the profits to the Government by the
purchase of $50, 900 bonds, accepted At
Ito, is 81. 725. Applications were received
for prepayment of interest on bonds
amounting to &19, 769, $50, making the total
TO date SIS OK, 800.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19
PRINCE FERDINAND, the new ruler Of Bull.
garia, was crowned at Tirnova on the 18th.
1t was rumored the Prince had insured his
life for 9, OOO, 600 forms.

~ Woo HumOteU Tue IEluC5 U8Q l00uI6Q Ql0
life for g ,O0O, 600 forms.
An industrial sohc0 16F'poy Is pro:
posed at Chicago by Mrs. Celia W. Wallace,
. rich and philanthropic woman. She
wants an incorporation with capital Of
100000, and large and interested public
support. The idea is to have the institu-
ton both home and school, and. besides the
dormitories and workshop, there will be q
military drill-room and school house,
where the rudiments Of an education can
be acquired while the boy is learning Q
trade in the workshop. Homeless waits
will be taken there and have y chance.
There will be nothing to prevent any boy
going back to the street if he chooses, and
this liberty will naturally sift oct the hope.
lessly bad, leaving in the school thoss
worth saving.-N. r SGs.
National Republican., 1887-04-11

THE Washington NATIONAL REPUBLICAN says
"Vitginia is now virtually bankrupt and the
state dishonored and the Democratic
majority in the legislature deliberately ignore
the Republicans in the effort that is now being
made TO settle the debt" But IL fails TO say
that Virginia was "dishonored" by It's pet,
Gen. Malone, backed by the whole weight Of
the Republican administration, and that
the Republicans in the Legislature voted
against the new effort that Is now being made
to settle the debt.-ditrdndria Gazette, Apr. 8.
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, frop which
the Gdseite quotes, though under mis-
nomer, did not say what the Gasette thinks
1t should have said, because the NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN proposes to say only what is
true in regard to this or any other question:
it.may discuss. 1t leaves to Democratic
papers the undisturbed monopoly of mis-
representation, to use no harsher term, Of
political opponents.
National Republican., 1887-04-11
A War Wanted.

There is not the slightest probability OF
England going to war with the United
States on the fisheries question. England
never goes to war except to make money
or to save money it has already made, and
there is no money to make or save in war
with the 'the nation of shop keepers" since
st has attained its growth, which thrasaed
the old bully when 1t was in the cradle, and
gave him respectable draw fight while In
Its callow youth.
But It is time for the United States to de-
clare war, not against England alone,
but against all Europe. In the war pro-
posed no guns nor armament will be needed,
though 1t will require vast navy and army
of men to invade, not Europe, but the coun-
tries we ought to conquer, and wrest from
European domination. The ships of the
navy will be American vessels flying its flag,
loaded with its products, carrying an army
qucr the tchole American continent aud the
Odjdcem islands.
ltis n commercial war that is wanted.
The United States produces greater
variety OF what is needed to feed and clothe
the world than any other country. Through
its superior machinery, and its intelligent
free artisans and laborers, 1t produces those
things as cheaply as they can be produced
anywhere, and yetit allows England, France,
Germany, and Spain to almost monopolize
A." commerce Of the countries which they
nave TO cross ui.s stormy Atlantic to reach,
while they lie In the shadow OIL vur oaast.
There is no reason why the merchants and
manufacturers of this country should not
monopolize the trade of Mexico, the West
India Islands, Central and South Amer
ice. The trade Of these eouu
tries is large and can be made larger, and
we purchase from them for our use every
year about $780, 100000 of their products
that lie, over one-fourth Of all they sell,
while we send to them only one eighth oi
what they buy.
The following tables and figures give
the hest idea Of the condition OF
trade between these American coun.
tries and the United States and be.
tween them and the principal European
countries, together with the amounts OF
American goods bought or sold, carried in
American and foreign vessels:
National Republican., 1887-04-11

COLUMBIA, 8. c., Apr. s.-Farming In one sec.
tion of Newberry county is being carried on
under difficulties. On one farm during work
ing hours two stout negro men can be seen
drawing plow, which is guided by negro
woman. These people have rented land but
have no working animals, and are trying to
raise crop by the most primitive mode Of cul'
iivation.
And yet they say the negr es OF the south
are lazy set, who will not work. There
are some, at least, who work under Difficult.
ties that would make most white men pause.
One gentleman who read this paragraph
said he would like to contributes dollar to-
ward buying those negroes horse or yoke
Of oxen to do their plowing with, or some
Of the neighbors might arrange a CO.
operative association on Senator Stanford's
plan and furnish the farm animals.
National Republican., 1887-04-11
MEDICAL.

II AIDES PENNYRoYAL PILLS.
Il "CHICHEsTER's ENGLsH." The Original
and only Genuine, Ask your druggist for
Chichesters English, take no other, or send 40
(stamps) for particulars by return mail.
CHICHESTER CHEMICAL COMPANY, Phil
adelphia, Pa. Sold by druggists everywhere.
noiS- ,th,s-lv
ENASY FEET AND DAILY WALKS IN THE
IL open air and sunshine best promote
health and longevity: hence the patronage &C
DR.. WHITES ESTABLISHMENT, lil0 PENN
sylvenia avenue, opposite Wizards Hotel, for
relief nom and avoidance OF Corns. BuDions.
Diseased Nails, Vascular Excrescences. and
other foot ailments. Fee. 81 per visit. Estab-
lished In Washington, D. O.. In 1861.
nR. A. b. ALRAUGH TREATS ALL
~ chronic affections of the eye and ear,
throat, lungs, liver. kidneys, and spleen, dyB-
pepsla, rheumatism, gout, fits, spasms, female
complaints, piles, tumors, cancers, &C.. private
diseases OF males and females. Confidential.
Removed to 1890 g st. N. w. de29-ly
National Republican., 1887-04-11
SHE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT.
A Lady Well Enough Posted without
Examination.

The civil service commission received a
queer communication from a lady living in
Chicago several days ago. She said examina-
tlons were nothing to her, but as she was
more than usually proficient in the particular
branch of study needed in the place she
wanted 1t would not be necessary TO go through
the useless form of examining her. She asked
II the commission could not take her word in.
stead. The place she wanted was to have
senators and members of Congress rehearse
their speeches before her that she might cor
rect their pronunciation before they delivered
them in the houses Of Congress. She thought
this was much needed.
The eommissioners:sent her polite reply.
First, they said they would just as leave take
her word for her knowledge without subject
ing her to an examination, as far as they were
concerned, but the law, with which they had
nothing TO do. made the useless form Of an
examination compulsory. Secondly, the lazy
had not provided for a position as she indl-
Gated, and they doubted very much whether
members OF Congress would allow their pro.
nunciation TO be corrected.
sALvkTIoN OIL once tried, always used.
National Republican., 1887-04-11

THE guns at the War Department will be
deployed en- eschelon, the messengers will
be mounted en- barbette, the scouts will be
placed in the classmates, so that If the late
comptroller should determine to make an
advance on the building he will find 1t de-
Tended according to the latest revised rules
Of modern warfare.
National Republican., 1887-04-11

To reduce the tariff one. half means to
double the revenue, and to double the tariff
means to reduce the revenue, so that there
will be no surplus. Free traders and reve
nue. reformers demand the former as a
means Of depressing wages in America.
Henry Clay stamped these words indelibly
upon the history of this country: In all
times Of prosperity protection has been our
sheet dncbOru
National Republican., 1887-04-11

Our principal imports from these coun-
tries are sugar, coffee, hides and skins,
tobacco, india rubber, chemicals, drugs,
dyes and medicines, cocoa, fruits and nuts,
manufactured wood, and wool, and our
principal exports breadstuffs, provisions,
iron and steel and manufactures Of, cotton
and manufactures OF, wood aud manufac-
lures Of, and OIL But there was balance
Of trade against us Of ninetyone million do
idrS, which had to be paid for in coin.
To Mexico, Central America, and the
West Indies, lying right upon our Dor.
ders, with summer sea TO cross, 63 per
cent, nearly two-thirds Of our commerce,
National Republican., 1887-04-11

On Saturday the President appointed Mar
shall Parks to be supervising inspector of
steam vessels for the third district. Mr.. Parks
is a resident of Norfolk and u Democrat His
experience would seem TO tiL him for the posi-
ton. He was not an applicant, but many
President has made two attempts TO secure
Mr.. Curran's confirmation for this Office, but
falling in each he dropped that gentleman and
took up Mr.. Parks
National Republican., 1887-04-11
MONDAY, APRIL II.
Amusenents.

NAT1oSAL-Dion Bouoicault.
ALBAuGH's-HanlonsF Fantasma.
RERSAS's-Mr. George Morton.
Biiou-"The Black Flag"
DIME-Fisher Il Hasson's Company.
TIE MANASSAS PANoRAHA-15th st. Il Ohio av
National Republican., 1887-04-11

RD lioHts, For Sale, For Rent, Lostdnd Found,
ond Personal, fOur lines or less, only % cents for
one insertion: 80 cents for three.
National Republican., 1887-04-11
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN: MONDAY MORNING.

found in this country who could be induced
to believe such folly, and very few who
would speak 10.
National Republican., 1887-04-11
v. BALDWIN JOHNSON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
WOOD AND COAL.
COMPLETE FACILITIEs, BOTTOM

COMPLETE FACILITIES, BOTTOM
PRICES, FULL WEIGHT AND
MEASURE.
Wood and coal direct from the forests and
mines by rail and water, and free from Stag,
slate, and other impurities.
GIVE ME A TRIAL.
Main Yard and Office, 110l r, /. ave. N, w.
Branch Yard and once, oil Ast, N. Il.
Branch Office, cor. 9th and X Sta, N, w,
All connected by telephone.
National Republican., 1887-04-11
A s. PRATT & SONS,
A. Insurance and Real Estate Agents,
No. 420 Ninth Street N, w,

AUCTION SALE OF THAT MAGNIFICENT
BUSINESS PROPERTY AT THE NORTH.
EAST CORNER OF NINTHANDD d STREETS
LINCOLN HALL BUILDING, BEING ALL
OF LOTS NUMBERED THREE (3) AND
FOUR ~ AND PART OF LOT FIVE (5) IN
SQUARE NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED
AND SEVEN 900 IN THE CITY OF WASH
INGT0N, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
This property, by far the most valuable un-
improved business site In this city, fronting
100 feet on Ninth street west and 100 feet on ID
street north, will be sold as whole, and will
carry the material now lying thereon.
ON SATURDAY, 23D OF APRIL, 1887, at 8
O'CLOCK p. M. we will offer for sale In front
OF the premises the above mentioned property.
Terms made known at sale.
DUECANSON BROS, Aucts.,
mh1S-d&ds Ninth and ID stB N. w,